{"id":176675,"date":"2023-11-24T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/what-is-openai-project-q-agi-superintelligence-explained"},"modified":"2023-11-24T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:22:32","slug":"what-is-openai-project-q-agi-superintelligence-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/what-is-openai-project-q-agi-superintelligence-explained","title":{"rendered":"What is OpenAI Project Q*? AGI Superintelligence Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-openai-project-q-agi-superintelligence-explained2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the dust still settles on OpenAI\u2019s latest drama, a letter has surfaced from several staff researchers citing concerns about an AI superintelligence model under development that could potentially pose a threat to humanity, according to those close to the source. The previously undisclosed letter is understood to be the real reason behind <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.co\/news\/why-was-sam-altman-fired-open-ai\">why Sam Altman was fired<\/a><\/strong> from the company.<\/p>\n<p>The model, known internally as Project Q*, could represent a major breakthrough in the company\u2019s pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2013 a highly autonomous branch of AI superintelligence capable of cumulative learning and outperforming humans in most tasks. And you were worried about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.co\/news\/what-is-chatgpt-beginners-guide-simple\">ChatGPT<\/a><\/strong> taking all our jobs?<\/p>\n<p>With Sam Altman now firmly back at the company and a new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.co\/news\/openai-board-member-changes\">OpenAI board<\/a><\/strong> in place, here are all of the details of Project Q*, as well as the potential implications of AGI in the bigger picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the dust still settles on OpenAI\u2019s latest drama, a letter has surfaced from several staff researchers citing concerns about an AI superintelligence model under development that could potentially pose a threat to humanity, according to those close to the source. The previously undisclosed letter is understood to be the real reason behind why Sam [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}